WHISKY RUNNING.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1923, Page 3

WHISKY RUNNING.

AND CONSEQUENT TAKE DOWNS LIQUOR MUST HAVE KICK. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 17. There is liagranL trickery in the bootlegging business between the dealer and the sailor and between the distributor and the retailer, each playing false with the (ittier, adulterating, swindling, lobbing and pirating. English exporters recently sent, out* a spy with n view to stopping t lie adult era tion. ’They heard no more of him. He was eit-’er murdered or caused to disappear, or else he joined in the .swinu'e him.-eli. The bootleggers have become so annoyed at the constant adulteration that they

have taken most rigorous precautions at Nassau, Bahama Islands,, which is the centre of the trade. They threatened to me violence and the adulteration has in consequence diminished. Olio trader v.as ruined by purchasing a cargo of seawater r.lfored as whisky, lint he failed to obtain redress. The mint loggers themselves live shockingly hag judges of whisky. They lefuse to purchase unless the liquor has a kick and consider the best variety resembles a glass of fish hooks ealciiiated to make a tana* rabbit, after one teaspoonlill liglii a bull-dog. Some Englishmen who are engaged in the gigantic traffir quickly made sufficient to purchase a ship lor a colossal deal. They sold at such a profit tha' they did not bother to take the ship into harbour, hut sank her where she lay and returned to England as first-class passengers. The port of Nassau received 87.821 gallons of whisky in 1917, and 1.840,140 in 1922.